Abstract
This article addresses narratives about the Second World War published in Deutsches Wort, the supplement in German
language of the Jornal de Entre Rios (Guarapuava, Paraná, Brazil). The article focuses on an interview produced in 1984
with an immigrant of the Entre Rios colony, Guarapuava, deported to Ukraine during the war. This interview was carried
out in 1984, although edited and published by this journal only in 1994, when the 50 years of the expulsion of the “Danube
Swabians†from Romania, Hungary and ex-Yugoslavia were remembered. The construction of an overcoming sense and of a
collective memory about these events, by editing and standardizing the traumatic memories of the witnesses, was assessed.
